So you have been running around this holiday season looking for the perfect gift for that special someone. You know they really like watching TV and even know what some of their favorite shows are but didn’t come up with anything good while out trudging through the malls. Well you are in luck. Here are a few Christmas gift ideas that you can still get right up until the wrapping paper starts to fly and you don’t even need to leave the house to get them.

Gift Certificates

Over at iTunes you can purchase gift certificates and send them via email. They have more than just music at iTunes. The TV fan on your list can find many of their TV favorites available for download like The Office, Lost, Prison Break and more.

Click on over to Amazon and purchase some gift certificates. You can print out a certificate to give in person or have it sent via email. The TV fan on your list can purchase just what they want. Whether it is TV shows on DVD, books about TV, soundtracks or anything else. They will be very happy with your gift. Printing the certificate out and giving it with a nice note or card can solve that last minute gift problem.

TV Show DVD Rentals

Get them a gift subscription to Netflix . They have more than just movies. If it comes out on DVD then they probably have it available. This includes every TV show that gets released on DVD. Perfect for catching up on shows they have missed or ones they want to reacquaint themselves with again but without having to buy every TV show DVD boxed set that comes out. I used it to catch up on the first season of Lost over the summer before the new season started and also to rent the original BBC The Office series. You can print the gift certificate or send it by email.

Magazine Subscriptions

Once again Amazon comes in handy. A subscription to American Idol the Magazine, Battlestar Galactica Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Everyday With Rachael Ray, Lost Magazine, Sci-Fi, TV Guide and many more would make a great gift for your friend the TV lover.

Well there they are. Four ideas to finish off that Christmas gift list at the last minute. Happy Shopping and Merry Christmas!

After 466 straight days of Tonight on the Tube posts the streak comes to an end. I live up here in the Great Northwest where we just had one of the worst windstorms the area has seen since Inauguration Day, 1993. Seattle is the Emerald City in the Evergreen State because of all the greenery and trees. Many of these trees fell and took out the power lines in the local area and all the way out to the transmission lines that bring power to the Seattle Metro Area. This left over a million people in the area without power.

The storm arrived in the area the night of Thursday, December 14th as I was watching the Seattle Seahawks blow the game against the San Francisco 49ers at Qwest Field on the NFL Network. We lost cable service for a bit but it came back on just in time to watch the 49ers score three touchdowns in the fourth quarter. This was also just in time for my Beyond TV DVR setup to record The Office Christmas episode. I haven’t been able to watch it yet but I look forward to doing so.

The local FOX station had bought the rights to show the Seahawks game in the local market. This threw off their showing of The O.C. here. It was going to be on after the 10 O’clock News. My computer was set to record it as well but the power went out before the show came on and has yet to come back on. So sadly, I was unable to celebrate Christmakkuh in The O.C., as it looked like it was going to be good.

The storm knocked out power in such a wide area that it wasn’t until today that I was able to get Internet access across town at a friend’s house, which is where I sit as I type this. It is warm and cozy and the highspeed Internet access is being sucked up as fast as I can use it. I also got to watch the Saturday Night Football game on the NFL Network.

Regular nightly picks for what is worth watching each night on TV will return as soon as I get power and regular Internet access again. Hopefully this should be soon.

It was a year ago today that I posted the first post here at TVaholic. I really can’t believe it has been a whole year. A lot of TV shows have been watched and posts written since then.

It started out with a few ramblings about the end of the summer TV season and thoughts of the new fall season ahead. Then I started posting nightly recommendations for what is worth watching tonight on the tube. I am only a few days away of having posted one everyday for a year. Next came reviews of some of the new shows that premiered. Soon the writing expanded to other topics like TV shows on DVD and most recently Ask the TVaholic where you can get your TV questions answered.

Some TVaholic Site Stats

Total Posts: 509 including this one.
Total Comments: 32
Three Most Viewed Posts:

1. Saturday Night Live: Peter Sarsgaard
2. Ultimate Guide to the Fall 2006 TV Schedule
3. The CW Unveils Their Fall 2006 TV Schedule

My Three Favorite Posts:

1. ‘Twas the Week Before Christmas
2. Accuracy vs. Realism in TV Shows
3. Surface Invasion Storyline

Goals for the Coming Year at TVaholic

• Post More Frequently – While everyday does seem pretty frequent that is only for one section of the site. I have a lot of ideas; I just need to sit down and write about them before they seem like old news.
• Comment More on Others Sites – I don’t comment and converse enough in the greater TV conversation that is going on around the web. So, I can’t really complain much that I don’t have very many comments when I don’t take the time to ad my two cents often enough.

Here’s to another year, hopefully big and better than the one before.

This is my first official post at my new site TVaholic.com. I have been watching TV for as long as I can remember. As I type this, the TV is on in the background. I am presently learning about the Secret Life Of … Sugar. For more on what you will find posted here read the About TVaholic page. I hope this will be a place where all us TVaholics can discuss what it is we like most, namely TV. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I like writing it.